Online collaboration has allowed companies to leapfrog their competition. But how do they avoid risk? This paper explores options for high-productivity collaboration supporting security and compliance. Must reading for anyone interested in strategic IT and compliance!

Be confident that you are measurably improving operational efficiency and reducing costs for your business by initiating a best-practices document performance management system with proven methodologies and tools

Every day, all over the world, businesses and individuals are forgoing paper and signing important business and personal documents online. From signing a vendor contract, to signing a home mortgage, and everything in between. This white paper gives an overview on how you can use electronic signatures to sign and send documents digitally to keep life and business moving forward.

Every day, all over the world, businesses and individuals are forgoing paper and signing important business and personal documents online. From signing a vendor contract, to signing a home mortgage, and everything in between. This white paper gives an overview on how you can use electronic signatures to sign and send documents digitally to keep life and business moving forward.

In property and casualty insurance, closing new business quickly is key. The longer you leave documents on the kitchen table for signature, the higher the risk of drop-off. Today, people are online. That’s where they want to do business, and they are rewarding carriers and agents who can provide a fast and convenient digital experience.
This eBook shows you how P&C companies of all sizes are using electronic signature technology get documents securely signed online – on any mobile device or computer, from anywhere, in minutes.

In this case study from Ombud Open Research, you will learn how US Bank is using electronic signature technology to streamline account openings and SMB loans. With e-signatures deployed across more than 3,000 branches, US Bank is leveraging both the Silanis on-premise e-signature solution and the Silanis cloud e-signature service for different processes. As a result, they have achieved operational efficiencies, improved customer experience and increased top-line revenue. The bank is currently e-signing 460,000 documents each week – a number that will continue to grow as US Bank’s initial implementation of electronic signatures is currently being re-purposed across the entire organization.

Rapid development of digital technologies and electronic communication, availability of mobile PCs and smart phones, abundance of tools for creating documents or high-quality presentations coupled with constantly growing volumes of information and yearning for doing business more effectively leads to switching to electronic exchange of information.

Document signing certificates enable organizations to digitally sign Adobe®, Microsoft Office® and other document types, marking them with visual trust indicators that verify the publisher’s identity—an indication that the document has not been altered.
With document signing certificates organizations can authenticate documents, allowing for secure and efficient electronic transmission of official papers including legal documents, invoices, engineering plans and diagrams, diplomas, charters and more while reducing costs associated with printing and maintaining paper files.
This white paper will discuss:
The history of document signing
What digital signatures are and how they function
The benefits and objectives of implementing document signing certificates
Real world use cases of document signing certificates

This paper covers why encryption is not enough to protect your electronic documents and why other factors such as the implementation of a DRM (digital rights management) system are equally important for document protection. It covers key management, enforcing time limitations, and other methods of document control.

Since Adobe debuted the PDF file format in the early 1990s, it has become the defacto standard for electronic documents in many markets. While engineers, publishers, and printers push the format to its technical limits with rich media and 3-D content, the general office worker comprises the PDF-using majority.

Since Adobe debuted the PDF file format in the early 1990s, it has become the defacto standard for electronic documents in many markets. While engineers, publishers, and printers push the format to its technical limits with rich media and 3-D content, the general office worker comprises the PDF-using majority.

Without a doubt, technology has revolutionized the way business is done. The vast majority of internal and external communication is now done through email, instant messaging, VOIP and other types of electronic communication. In addition, most business documents exist in digital form. The digitization of business has had significant implications for litigation. Legal eDiscovery is now an essential part of settling cases between organizations. Previously, many companies believed that eDiscovery was only for organizations that were public or highly regulated, but now most companies recognize that electronically stored information (ESI) regulations are applicable to all organizations and there is an ever-increasing need for cost-effective eDiscovery.

Data breaches can carry very serious consequences, such as the revelation in February 2008 that that the Hannaford Brothers chain of supermarkets lost more than four million debit and credit card numbers to hackers. The bottom line is that organizations must implement Data Loss Prevention (DLP) systems to protect themselves against the growing array of threats they face from inadvertent and malicious data leaks from email, instant messaging and other systems.

In January of 2008, a random sample of online technical newsletter subscribers at midsize companies (100-5,000 employees) received an email invitation to participate in a survey about data protection solutions use at their organizations. The goal of the survey was to identify sources of and/or reasons for information security breaches, and to better understand how businesses are planning to protect themselves against data leaks. The following report presents top line results of the study.

Companies rely on knowledge assets, such as product formulas and customer databases. VPNs and network monitors can protect proprietary information from outsiders; but, they won't do much to prevent access by internal users. With the popularity of wireless networks, USB drives and other portable devices, it's all too easy for insiders to leak key data. This white paper explains how Trend Micro LeakProof 3.0 protects sensitive data at rest, in use, and in motion.

Encryption will help to protect data against unauthorized access by outsiders from lost or stolen devices such as laptops, thumb drives, and other removable media. But it does not protect against the insider threat-employees and contractors with authorized access to data who mistakenly or maliciously leak your most valuable assets.